Mingora
Mingora
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Mingora (
26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and the epicenter of social, cultural, and economic activities in Malakand Division, and also the largest in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[2]
History
The area around Mingora has long been inhabited.archaeologists unearthed 475 Indo-Aryan graves dated between 1520 and 170 BC and two horse skeletons.[4] On the opposite side of the River Swat at Aligrama, near the Saidu Sharif airport, a site of Gandhara grave culture was discovered by Italian archaeologists and dated to 1000 BC.
Buddhism arose in the region with the arrival of monks from the Gangetic plains. Under Emperor
Mediterranean and West Asia. Many Buddhist remains and carvings[5] have been discovered near Mingora in the Jambil River Valley. At Panr, a stupa and monastery dated to the 1st century CE has been excavated. In Mingora, Faxian claimed to have seen the biggest Buddhist monastery, and large carving of the foot-prints of Buddha carved on the sides of the ridges at Teerat.[6] Excavations at the Butkara Stupa near Mingora revealed a large and imposing central stupa surrounded by more than 200 votive stupas which were discovered by Pakistani archeologist in the 20th century.[7][8]
Following the collapse of Buddhist rule, direct control of the area came under the
Mahmud Ghazni
.
In 2007 during the rise of the
suicide bomber killed about 40 people
at a funeral.
Most of the city's income comes from treads and tourism. The people of the uplands mostly pay attention to Mingora for buying and selling which includes Dir, Shangla,
The
Operation Rah-e-Raast in 2009 placed Mingora back into Pakistani control.[13]
Climate
Mingora features a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen climate classification. The average annual temperature in Mingora is 19.3 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 897 mm. November is the driest month with 22 mm of precipitation, while August, the wettest month, has an average precipitation of 134 mm.
June is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 29.2 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of 7.6 °C.
| Climate data for Mingora | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 13.0 (55.4) |
15.8 (60.4) |
20.2 (68.4) |
25.6 (78.1) |
31.7 (89.1) |
36.8 (98.2) |
35.4 (95.7) |
33.7 (92.7) |
32.3 (90.1) |
28.0 (82.4) |
21.8 (71.2) |
15.3 (59.5) |
25.8 (78.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) |
10.3 (50.5) |
14.2 (57.6) |
19.2 (66.6) |
24.5 (76.1) |
29.2 (84.6) |
29.0 (84.2) |
27.8 (82.0) |
25.6 (78.1) |
20.5 (68.9) |
14.6 (58.3) |
9.4 (48.9) |
19.3 (66.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.1 (35.8) |
4.8 (40.6) |
8.2 (46.8) |
12.7 (54.9) |
17.3 (63.1) |
21.6 (70.9) |
22.6 (72.7) |
21.9 (71.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
7.4 (45.3) |
3.5 (38.3) |
12.8 (55.1) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 81 (3.2) |
98 (3.9) |
125 (4.9) |
90 (3.5) |
46 (1.8) |
31 (1.2) |
130 (5.1) |
134 (5.3) |
64 (2.5) |
28 (1.1) |
22 (0.9) |
48 (1.9) |
897 (35.3) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[14] | |||||||||||||
Notable people
- Nazia Iqbal (born c. 1984), singer
- Ghazala Javed (1988–2012), singer
- Nasirul Mulk (born 1950), politician and former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Malala Yousafzai (born 1997), Noble laureate,female education activist
See also
References
- ^ "Population and Household Detail From Block to District Level: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Swat District)" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ^ a b c "Life in the Swat Valley". Pulitzer Center. 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- ISBN 9781134041961.
- ^ Augusto Azzaroli, Two Proto-historic Horse Skeletons from Swāt, Pakistan, East and West, Vol. 25, No. 3/4 (September–December 1975), pp. 353-357: [1]
- ^ https://korbah.com/carvings [dead link]
- ^ "Journal of Asian Civilisations". 2001.
- ^ Khan, F. A. (1969). "Architecture and Art Treasures in Pakistan: Prehistoric, Protohistoric, Buddhist, and Hindu Periods".
- ^ "1998 District Census Report of [name of District].: Ghotki". 1999.
- ^ (Pakistan), Census Organization (1975). "Population Census of Pakistan, 1972: Sukkur".
- ^ "Mullah Radio: Pakistan urges Afghan action against Maulvi Fazlullah". The Express Tribune. 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- ^ "Swat Taliban chief 'near death'". 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- ^ Khan, Omer Farooq (July 22, 2009). "Dying notes: Music goes out of Peshawar as artists face militants' ire". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- ^ "Operation Rah-e-Raast liberating Swat valley from extremism – South Asia Journal". 19 February 2017. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- ^ "Climate: Mingora - Climate-Data.org". Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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